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Tropposurfer

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  1. No confusion at all my friend. This is why I live on the very comfortable income my pal and also I live on because we knew what we did before retiring, and we still do.
  2. Why don't you try yelling and screaming incoherent rage filled abuse at the pool staff, then post as many insulting things as you can come up with all over social media about it, then make up a huge sign insulting the pool owners and picket all day. LOL ????????
  3. A Thai remake of the charming 1990's rom-com 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' ... same same but different ... 'One Wedding and Two Funerals'.
  4. Yeah! She's a bl@@dy know-it-all hahaha1???? Like a dang encyclopedia she is! ????????
  5. Bora Bora is insanely beautiful, Cocos Islands same, Maldives gorgeous and has sick waves. The Rtiz in Paris is awesome for a few days of supreme luxury and comfort. Depends on what you like.
  6. RIP mate ???? So, the guy was murdered. Is this the inference or assumption by the G/F? Why would a policeman/men hang a person, or give a person means to hang themselves deliberately? Granted in some nations all mechanisms to harm self is removed and a constant watch is always maintained on vulnerable people e.g Inebriated Indigenous folks taken into custody in Australia (and where failures to constantly monitor has led to many self-harm deaths in custody). It is difficult and extremely painful to consider that someone we love might deliberately harm themselves. This 'survivor/left behind' response in such types of deaths is not uncommon. In trying to make sense of such a death, others often look for a reasoning that denies the possibility someone might actually take their own life. The 'duty of care' is of course present when anyone is held in custody but here in LOS it is not held in the same focus as in our home nations.
  7. Talk about an entire governmental system doing the bidding of your mega-rich monopoly masters. Disgraceful but par for the course.
  8. Sand? No. Serves ZERO purpose. Just make sure the ground is evenly screeded shovel levelled fairly evenly (no big rocks or rises throughout the area) before laying forms, plastic, rebar chairs, then the mesh. Slab at no less depth than 125 mm for a cars. Again, if for heavy loads then 150 mm thickness. Some might say 100 mmm is fine but better to add the 25 mm and know it will take almost any load you might put on it without cracking. *** If the temperature is hot like it is now, or the pour is in direct sunlight, I would fine spray the slab with the hose nozzle to dampen it lightly and do it with a gentle spray so as not to mess up the textured (broom) finish. Say; gently every half hour or so for the rest of the day till night falls. This will help slow the sure further and deter cracking. The reaction of the lime in the cement and the other additives they put in modern crete creates some exothermic reaction (heat) and this will accelerate the curing somewhat, especially in hot climates. The dampening with a fine mist spray of H2O helps correct this. I wouldn't use the slab for a few weeks if it were my place. Walking across it fine after a day or so but driving no. Better to be safe and let the slab 'settle' and cure., Plastic: Just builders plastic. It usually comes in plain black, or orange here (same colour in Aussie). Comes in a roll, thick and tough. Folds out to a 2 meter wide strip. Overlap @ about 150 mm to 200 mm. Make sure the concreter uses concrete chairs too, simply pulling the mesh up by hand, or putting rocks under the mesh during the pour is useless and the mesh will sink to the bottom, and from the concreter walking on it while screeding. This sinking weakens and affect the structural integrity of the slab.
  9. I reckon we should ban any for of bipedal ambulation, or mechanically assisted movement at all ????????????????
  10. There's lots of Muay Thai gyms across LOS. A really good one for all levels is Fairtek at north Pattaya. I don't know what they charge for tuition now. Sparring is easy to arrange, the coaches will take care of him so he don't beat up on or get beat up too badly. There's lots of young guy and some gals training there every day. He could rock up with his gear at 7 a.m. first morning and train and ask about for chill buddies and folks to hang out with. I used to visit there on my trips in years past and found the coaches great, and all of the guys, all but the odd fella, cool, responsible, friendly and chill.
  11. These devices seem to work. A pal of mine up north east way uses one and it freaks ALL the dogs out he has ever used it on.
  12. That photo you show us is NOT re-bar ... You're correct. That is non-galvanised, what we in Oz call 'dog-fence' wire. It's completely inadequate for any sort of laod bearing concrete slabbing. I would not recommend a mesh diameter of less than 7.6 mm for any type of high load bearing slab e.g. a normal car carrying driveway. The larger the surface area the greater the mesh diameter needs to be. If the driveway is to take high loads e.g. trucks, then I would recommend 10 mm bar. *** Don't forget to make expansion cuts, or insert expansion jointing foam in between the slab sections e.g. at say every 2 to 3 metres intervals. If you want the slab to stay n ice n dry lay builders plastic throughout underneath (this will also slow the curing and help avoid cracking). For a footpath with normal foot-traffic you could go as low as 4.6 mm diameter mesh - don't forget your expansion cuts. No offence to Thais but their structural building knowledge and application generally sucks.
  13. Happy fishes ... happy life ????
  14. Obviously these two nit-wits are members of the 'quality tourist' brigade the The World Class Resort seems to attract lol ????
  15. Beautiful ???????????????????? Dr Suess ... the greatest of all psychotherapists !
  16. OMG!!! ????????????????
  17. You're just SOOOOO WOKE! 'still kicking' ... hahahahaha ???????????????? (joke mate)
  18. Hi hum ... nothing to see here. Oh! Is that the time ?! Must get on with my privileged falang life. lol ????
  19. Our pool is always open to dogs except soi dogs in pre-wash state ????
  20. Pedant post of the day from moi. To = preposition. Definition: Used for expressing motion, or direction towards a point, person, p[lace, or thing approached and reached, as opposed to from). Example: They came to the house. Too. Adverb. Definition: (As a sub modifier) to a higher degree than is desirable, permissible, or possible; excessively. e.g. He was driving too fast / He wore suits that seemed a size too small for him. Informal use: 'You're too kind, is he coming too?
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